The Schoolmaster: Essays on Practical Education, Selected from the Works of Ascham, Milton, EtcCharles Knight, 1836 - 452 pages |
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... fact ) , that the books of the old Stoics and Epicureans ( the sects " which were fondest in opinion and rudest in utter- ance " ) have all perished . But " again , " he exclaims , " behold on the other side , how God's wisdom hath ...
... fact ) , that the books of the old Stoics and Epicureans ( the sects " which were fondest in opinion and rudest in utter- ance " ) have all perished . But " again , " he exclaims , " behold on the other side , how God's wisdom hath ...
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... facts will render this sufficiently evident . It will not be denied that some modes of thinking are better adapted to ... fact , become a vastly more skilful instrument of discovery than ever it was before . In proof of IMPROVEMENT OF ...
... facts will render this sufficiently evident . It will not be denied that some modes of thinking are better adapted to ... fact , become a vastly more skilful instrument of discovery than ever it was before . In proof of IMPROVEMENT OF ...
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... fact , that more power has been gained over the agents of nature , and that they have been made to yield a greater amount of human happiness to the human race , within the last one hundred years , than for ten times that period before ...
... fact , that more power has been gained over the agents of nature , and that they have been made to yield a greater amount of human happiness to the human race , within the last one hundred years , than for ten times that period before ...
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... fact employed in the ac- quisition of those laws which have been already disco- vered . Without a knowledge of them , education would be almost useless . Without it , there could evidently be no progressive improvement of the species ...
... fact employed in the ac- quisition of those laws which have been already disco- vered . Without a knowledge of them , education would be almost useless . Without it , there could evidently be no progressive improvement of the species ...
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... fact that these effects are not produced - and I think we must admit that they are not , in any such de- gree as might reasonably be expected - should we not conclude that the fault is not in the classics , but in our teaching ? Would ...
... fact that these effects are not produced - and I think we must admit that they are not , in any such de- gree as might reasonably be expected - should we not conclude that the fault is not in the classics , but in our teaching ? Would ...
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Page 110 - I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct ye to a hillside, where I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the Harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Page 118 - The interim of unsweating themselves regularly, and convenient rest before meat, may, both with profit and delight, be taken up in recreating and composing their travailed...
Page 111 - I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.
Page 40 - I am with him. And when I am called from him I fall on weeping, because whatsoever I do else but learning is full of grief, trouble, fear, and whole misliking unto me. And thus my book hath been so much my pleasure, and bringeth daily to me more pleasure and more, that in respect of it all other pleasures, in very deed, be but trifles and troubles unto me.
Page 109 - ... that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind, is our time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies ' given both to schools and universities; partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled, by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention.
Page 110 - ... and tyrannous aphorisms, appear to them the highest points of wisdom; instilling their barren hearts with a conscientious slavery, if, as I rather think, it be not feigned. Others, lastly, of a more delicious and airy spirit, retire themselves, knowing no better, to the enjoyments of ease and luxury, living out their days in feast and jollity; which, indeed, is the wisest and the safest course of all these, unless they were with more integrity undertaken.
Page 117 - ... that sublime art which in Aristotle's poetics, in Horace, and the Italian commentaries of Castelvetro,18 Tasso, Mazzoni, and others, teaches what the laws are of a true epic poem, what of a dramatic, what of a lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand masterpiece to observe.
Page 182 - of law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world...
Page 104 - If two triangles have two sides of the one equal to two sides of the...
Page 40 - For when I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing or doing anything else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure and number, even so perfectly as God made the world...